Tutorials Piston uses


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Since pistons Piston Transparency Yes Luminance None Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Pistons are blocks capable of pushing most blocks, depending on minecraft were introduced in Beta 1.7, players have been experimenting with their potential uses. Below are some demonstrations and guides. The interest in pistons is their ability to manipulate the position of other blocks.

Jeb door

A Jeb Door is a piston door that is completely hidden in the wall that it is in. Jeb Doors come in two varieties: half and full. A half Jeb Door reveals a 2x1 passegeway (y x). A full Jeb Door opens to a 2x2 tunnel.

Videos

Smallest Full Jeb door

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Half Jeb Door

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pros:

  • 1. easy to build
  • 2. simple
  • 3. requires few materials compared to hidden piston stairs
  • 4. easy to modify. exm: you can modify it to open with a self-destructing lever, or you can use mods like computercraft and use the computer to request a password to open the door.

cons:

  • 1. to blend in well into the environment, you will need a stone or dirt wall. stone walls can be found on the extreme hills biome (and it`s variants)
  • 2. if you need to build it on a plains biome or other flat terrain, you will need to somehow blend the door on the enviroment. if this is impossible for some reason, your only choice will be the hidden piston stairs.
  • 3. players can accidentally mine the door, as no one knows there`s a door on the wall.

Horizontal Jeb Door

This version featuresSpecial attraction a Jeb Door fixed horizontally on the ground. It can be used as a hidden door to a secret base or passageway.

Videos

Easy and hidden Mini-Base

This video showcases a simple and easy to use Mini Base design (although it no longer works due to updates.)

Secret fireplace entrance

This is a design for a 2x2 secret fireplace entrance to a hidden base.

Small double piston extender

Small double piston extender that is resource friendly and easy to make.

Hidden Piston Stairs

Below are examples of hidden piston stairs.

Piston Escalator

Uses pistons and different repeater timings to create a wave motion that can propel the player up a number of levels.

Base entrance

Compact 3x2 piston door with pressure plates

Simple 2x2 piston door

3x3 piston door

Simplest 1ℂₗ2 piston door

Uses 2 pistons to pull out the top and bottom of the door, respectively. Put a redstone torch powering each piston and connect them both as inverters. Put a lever on one block with wire on it, build a wall on the front, and it`s done!

Another version of a 1x2 piston door can be seen here:

3x3 Spiraling Iris door

Self-resetting Sand Door

Easy To Follow Piston Door Tutorial

Simplified Redstone circuit for Piston Door

Piston Lava Door

A lava door that allows for safe entry to rooms without the player getting burnt, uses Pistons, redstone and pressure plates to accomplish this!

Fully Hidden Piston Door

This design is fully hidden, no pistons or redstone visible. Also this design can be activated from both sides, and still, everything will be hidden. The design isn`t too complicated and doesn`t take up a whole lot of resources either. The only cons are that the ceiling must be 2 blocks high, or you`ll have to make the door more complicated. Con #2 is that the bottom part of the door MUST come out from the floor, not from the sides, or as mentioned earlier, you`ll have to make the door more complicated. Not to mention that it`ll slow down the process, be that as it may, this door is just a little bit slower (around 5 torch delays slower). This design is running smooth on SMP servers, and is actually pretty much the main reason to build this, more complicated version - it is easy to change the directions in tunnels, confusing people and they won`t see the pistons so they won`t realize that the path has been changed. This does make sound though, so make sure they get far away before you activate it if you don`t want them to hear it.

Improved Hidden Piston Door

The improved hidden piston door is a `flush inset` 2x2 piston door that can be opened through the use of a redstone torch on a wall. PearSquirrel improved this by compacting it and configuring it with pressure plates on the inside.

Smallest 3x3 Piston Door with Slime Blocks

This is a 3x3 Piston door using the new Slime Blocks in the 1.8 snapshots. It is the smallest 3x3 Piston door to date. It is only 11x8x1! (88 blocks total)

2x1 Completely Hidden Seamless Inside and Out In-Wall Piston Door

This is a piston door that can not be seen on the outside, and no wiring/pistons are exposed when the door is open. The video below includes a demo and how to build it.

2x2 Out of Ground Piston Door

This is a secret door with a twist: The blocks aren`t being pushed from the sides, they are pushed from the ground and are pushed twice. This design uses a double extender in order to push the blocks 2 up to hide the entrance. Note that this design is space/resource unfriendly thus you`d get more benefits out of it if you used it in a custom map.

Multiplexing Piston Door

This is a very over complex piston door that has way too many repeaters to be useful at all. It all runs off of a button that is connected to many different small piston doors.

Piston Door

You can make doors with pistons and here is the most compact way. You can add a combination to the mechanism.

Underground door

Hidden Door

For a door that is completely hidden except the lever/ Pressure Plate Pressure Plate Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tools Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Wooden: No, but catches fire from lava Others: No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name See Data minecraft / Button Button Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name See Data values A button is a non-solid block minecraft to power it, you can use a Piston Piston Transparency Yes Luminance None Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Pistons are blocks capable of pushing most blocks, depending on minecraft door. A very simple version is one that just moves 2 blocks to the side with 2 Sticky Pistons Piston Transparency Yes Luminance None Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Pistons are blocks capable of pushing most blocks, depending on minecraft , which are hidden inside a wall and are powered by Redstone. To make some more complicated and fancy ones, you can get the blocks to move first away from the Player The Player Health points 20 () Armor points Varies Attack strength Fist: 1 () Items: Varies Size Height: 1.8 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks While sneaking: Height: 1.65 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks While gliding: Height: 0.6 minecraft , and then sideways, allowing for 2 wide doors and it also allows you to build it so that the door appears at the middle of a wall, instead of it only being possible to make it either in a corner or in a tunnel of the desired width of the door Door Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 15 (Wood) 25 (Iron) Tools Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Iron: No Wooden: No, but catches fire from lava Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name minecraft , because now all the pistons are behind it. You have to do some redstone Redstone Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Availability Survival Drops Redstone (1) Data values See Data values Name See Data values This article is minecraft wiring, though, and if you want to make the door 2 wide it will need at least 12 sticky pistons, 4 to move the blocks into the wall, 4 to move them sideways, and 4 to move the four pistons that moved the blocks sideways sideways. You have to make the delay from the input to the first four pistons, the ones that move the blocks into the wall, 2 ticks. Then split the redstone wires that go to the other 8 pistons; one way has a delay of 1 tick, the other one a delay of 4 ticks. Then after the delays you can join the wires again and bring them to the pistons. To make it more hidden, replace the blocks with bookcases. An example of this can be found below.

If you really want it to be invisible, remove the button or lever, and instead carry a Redstone torch Redstone Torch Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 7 (when on) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name See Data values This article minecraft . Place it where the button was when you are ready to enter. It will stay open until you exit but hey, who carries those things around randomly anyway?

You can also completely hide your button/lever by putting it underground in a specific place only you know of and once your in it can`t be open from the outside. An example of that is below.

Simple piston door

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Notes:

  • The full gray squares can be any solid block (except blocks of redstone anywhere, or bedrock/obsidian for the door itself).
  • The empty squares in Layer 2 should be lit with a torch, otherwise mobs can spawn inside.
  • This design can be easily extended to be 3 blocks high - simply place redstone dust on top of the blocks with redstone torches underneath.

Piston Draw Bridge

A redstone operated Sticky Piston Draw bridge that can be used to cross a lava pit, it also acts as a moat as it can expand and contract to reveal or hide a secret path.

Piston Table

By placing an upward-facing Piston on top of a Redstone Torch, one can easily and effectively create a 1x1 table.
An example of a piston table with chairs below!